there aren't many republicans standing with trump on this, but one who is, is new york republican chris collins, and we welcome him back. >> always good to be with you, chris. >> pleasure is mine. thank you for taking the opportunity. >> happy to be here. >> it matters. why do you believe that the president was a word away? >> i think this comes back to president trump's focus on keeping america safe and making the world a safer place. when you look at iran, when you look at north korea, when you look at syria, there's only one person that can help us make this a safer world, and that is vladimir putin, who has got his fingers in all three areas. we are going to need to get to some resolution in all three of those hot spots with vladimir putin. donald trump, the negotiator, president trump certainly hands that and strategically meeting with vladimir putin is opening the door much like he's doing with kim jong-un. >> right. >> to make this a safer place. and when it comes to those three areas, if we're not in consultation and pushing russia where we can, this is not going to be a safer world. >>

let's get after the political implications with republican congressman from new york chris collins. good to see you, sir. >> good to be with you, chris. it's been a while. i like this time slot better than the 7:00 a.m. >> well, thank you. hopefully you will use it with me often. what do you make of the analysis? in your own view, what was accomplished in this hearing today? >> well, first of all, let's start by we have to remember as americans that the fbi does -- all the agents are not represented by peter strzok or lisa page. they're a stain on the fbi. and what we saw today, because there's no doubt about it. agent strzok had a very defiant, aggressive look about him and tone. we just have to remember that, you know, we should respect all the other agents within the fbi and call out peter strzok and lisa page for what they are. >> you think your fellow party members did that today in that hearing? >> well, today it was about the divisive nature in congress. i was in a similar hearing in the energy and commerce committee about the children who have all been united, the kids under

dagen: here now chris collins as well as democratic copyingman henry, member of house appropriation'sommittee, congressman collins, i want to start with you first, so close to midterms this vladimir putin putin to the white house, are you worried? >> i'm not at all. let's face it this is to be about world peace, dagen, our hot spots are north korea, iran and syria, that's what has put the world in a bad place, vladimir putin has fingers in all three of those and the only way to get resolution in safe world and world peace for vladimir putin and president trump to come to some agreement to get rid of the nuclear threat in iran and the nuclear threat in north korea and the terrible situation in syria, so that takes conversation, you don't do that over the telephone. i think the trip, the helsinki summit was a good first start and trump to be congratulated that he's continuing a dialogue that someone that has to be part of solution, congressman, even, however, other republicans, lindsey graham said there won't be any one-on-one meetings any longer between putin and trump? >> well, you kn

up here, i think it is the 27th district you have chris collins. i have that heard a word about the ethics investigation about his insider trading. i am also wondering about how partys the democratic backing nate mcmurray? i have not seen any commercials and if i was living in south carolina, i would be seeing commercials now for november. your thoughts? ,uest: this is a district talking about the partisan voting index, that votes 11 points more republican than the rest of the country. i do not even know if there are democrats in congress that represent districts that tilt this far republican. we have this race rated as solid republican and if a district is solid republican this kind of year, it is really solid. i would not expect to see a lot of ads. democrats, for both parties, you funnel your money where you think it will make the most difference. i doubt if you see any party, national party money at all on either side going into this because there are over 100 races that are more competitive than this one. all those 100 will not be that well-fu

firefighters per year for cancer than we do with any other cause in firefighting new york congressman chris collins says his legislation - the firefighter cancer registry act would develop a link between cancer and firefighters and track the incidences of cancer among all firefighters and the types of fires they respond to... if 6 firefighters fought a particular chemical fire and 18 years later all came down with cancer - there's the direct linkage and the idea here is to get better protective gear, better eduation. the legislation will authorize 2 million dollars in federal funds to the centers for disease control for research. will direct the centers for disease control - the cdc - to create a firefighter cancer registry which will be voluntary - but i understand almost every fire company in america will do that - to track the incidence of cancer amongst all the firefighters and the types of fires they have been on - so to look for linkages... we need to link those exposures to the cancer, to the job of firefighting - if we can do those then we know we're getting closer to helping and preventing

for example, he met with congressman chris collins, a new york republican, the first in congress to endorse trump's presidential candidacy. but his calendar did not show who else was in the room, three representatives of a company that do business with the national park service. one of about of a dozen instances uncovered of his calendar omitting who he is actually meeting with. is going to zinke go down as one of the worst interior secretary zinke history -- his actions are very interior secretaries in history and his actions are very similar to scott pruitt's before he was forced to o resign. he is aggressively trying to avoid all environmental laws. he is meeting with industry groups constantly and then hiding that, rather than simply admitting to what he is doing in public. and the agenda is always the same. what can he do to allow public lands to be destroyed? what can he do to allow more oil and gas drilling, even if it is polluting local communities, poisoning children? it is really a disaster. he has turned this agency, which is supposed to be in charge of america's land, air, water

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it's grossly unfair and let me just reference what you said, chris collins said made donors are basically saying get it done but don't ever call me again. lindsey graham said the financial contributions will top the if the tax bill doesn't. she didn't say tax scam. i'm saying tax and sales. mulvaney has a hierarchy in my office. if you're lobbyists i don't talk to you. if you give us money i might talk to you. he made that in the speech of the 1300 bankers at the american bankers association conference. i just wanted to read it so you knew i was exactly quoting them. but what the grassroots said it really resonates with them and that's what we know is how it impacts the budget so that the president's budget comes out, republicans budget comes out cutting over a trillion dollars in medicaid. half a trillion dollars in medicare, social security, disability, benefits, food stamps, nutrition programs, education. but especially in if you have voted a certain way, they're going after your medicare. they have said they would wither on the vine. now they have the perfect excuse. we have over $2 t

chris collins said my donors are basically saying get it done or don't ever call me again. lindsay graham said the financial contributions will op at the tax bill -- if the tax bill doesn't -- tax scam fail he didn't say tax scam, i'm saying tax scam, fails. mulvaney said if you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, i don't talk to you. if you're a lobbyist who gave us money, i may talk to you. he said that in a speech at the american bankers association conference. i want to read it so you knew i was exactly quoting them. but what the grass roots groups said that really resonates with them and it's what we know to be so is how it impacts the budget. so the president's budget comes out, the republican budget comes out, cutting over $1 trillion in medicaid, half a trillion dollars in medicare, social security, disability benefits. food stamps. nutrition programs. education. but especially if you're a senior, seniors seem to be, have voted a certain way, they're going after your medicare. they have said that it should wither on the vine. now they have a perfect excuse. oh my

firefighters per year for cancer than we do with any other cause in firefighting new york congressman chris collinshe firefighter cancer registry act would develop a link between cancer and firefighters and track the incidences of cancer among all firefighters and the types of fires they respond to... if 6 firefighters fought a particular chemical fire and 18 years later all came down with cancer - there's the direct linkage and the idea here is to get better protective gear, better eduation. the legislation will authorize 2 million dollars in federal funds to the centers for disease control for research. will direct the centers for disease control - the cdc - to create a firefighter cancer registry which will be voluntary - but i understand almost every fire company in america will do that - to track the incidence of cancer amongst all the firefighters and the types of fires they have been on - so to look for linkages... we need to link those exposures to the cancer, to the job of firefighting - if we can do those then we know we're getting closer to helping and preventing cancers in the future fo

. >> reporter: chris, susan collins is one of just two republican senators who considers themselves pro-choice, susan collins and lisa murkowski. remember, along with john mccain, who voted down the trump-pushed health care bill. it was susan collins and susan murkowski. they've shown a willingness in the past to buck the president. susan collins is a republican, but a lot of individuals here voted for hillary clinton and support susan collins and want her to take that position. >> 61% of americans want a justice who will vote to uphold roe. thank you very much, vaughn hillyard, in bangor, maine. >>> the president had what can only be described as a very bad day with the facts yesterday. entire stories written about how misleading his tweets were. "the new york times" fact checker wrote, quote, in the space of a few hours, president trump on tuesday took credit for averting a war in north korea, charged without proof that barack obama had secretly granted citizenship to thousands of iranians as part of nuclear disarmament negotiations, and appeared to suggest that customers of motorcycle maker

up here, i think it is the 27th district you have chris collins.that heard a word about the ethics investigation about his insider trading. i am also wondering about how partys the democratic backing nate mcmurray? i have not seen any commercials and if i was living in south carolina, i would be seeing commercials now for november. your thoughts? ,uest: this is a district talking about the partisan voting index, that votes 11 points more republican than the rest of the country. i do not even know if there are democrats in congress that represent districts that tilt this far republican. we have this race rated as solid republican and if a district is solid republican this kind of year, it is really solid. i would not expect to see a lot of ads. democrats, for both parties, you funnel your money where you think it will make the most difference. i doubt if you see any party, national party money at all on either side going into this because there are over 100 races that are more competitive than this one. all those 100 will not be that well-funded. i

collins. >> reporter: chris, you saw there. we heard from president trump and president putin that president putin went first, spoke first what the meeting was going to look like and then president trump went after him. we're learning that's because russia is considered the host country of the summit between the two world leaders, the first formal sit-down since president trump took office. of course, they are behind closed doors and the question on everyone's mind is what they are going to talk about while they are in there. as you noted, the president brought up china and nuclear weapons and missiles and trade. he did not bring up ukraine, syria or election meddling. but this is how he said he believed those talks were going to go. >> i think we have great opportunities together as two countries that frankly we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years. i've been here not too long. it's getting close to two years but i think we will end up having an extraordinary relationship, i hope so. i've been say

collins made point clearly. she wants someone who will adhere to constitution and the law. chris said that roe is firm precedent and subtle law if you have somebody who has a record of having said, for instance, william that it was obamination, that will set out alarm bells? >> none of the people that are being talked about in public space are people who have clear position on roe v. wade. the most important is fairness, someone who listens carefully to arguments on both sides and someone who tries to keep open mind and perspective nominees like raymond kethledge and tom hardiman and writings show they are fair, they listen to arguments on both sides and analyze carefully and when they take a position, they then say these are what the other people have said about them and that's really at the end of the day that we want. we want that in a judge and senator collins and murkowski and others who went through gorsuch process saw that in nile -- neil gorsuch. chris: you just mentioned four names, is it fair to say those are the front runners at this point? >> no, those are certainly p

let's start with coverage and kaitlan collins here in helsinki. >> reporter: chris, 90 minutes. that's how long president trump and president putin will be sitting together one-on-one here in helsinki. there will be no aides. no advisors and no record of what is said during the sit-down with the two leaders in the first formal sit-down since president trump took office. the president giving us a glimpse into the mind set of the meeting and what it truly is for him. >> mr. president, what do you hope to do today? >> i'll see him in a little while. we'll do just fine. >> reporter: hours before his hit-down with russian president vladimir putin, president trump blaming the u.s. for poor relations with russia. >> i don't expect anything. i frankly don't expect. i come in with low expectations. >> reporter: trump insists he will bring up election meddling when he sits down with putin one-on-one. despite failing to condemn russia after robert mueller indicted 12 russian military officers for the interference in the election. instead blaming the obama administration and democratic nati

collins made the point very clearly. she wants someone who's going to adhere to the constitution and the law more than anything else. so what you really want -- >> chrisalso said that it's a firm precedent. if you have somebody who has a record, for instance william pryor, that it was an abomination, roe v. wade, that's clearly going to set off alarm bells. it would be fair to say the president is not going to pick somebody who has a clear record of opposition to roe v. wade? >> mr. leo: none of the people who are being talked about now in the public space in the media are people who have a clear position on roe v. wade. the most important thing here is a record showing fairness, someone who listens very carefully to arguments on both sides. someone who tries to keep an open mind and perspective nominees like brett cavanaugh, barrett and raymond and tom hardeman are people who have not specifically said they oppose roe vs. wade and their writings and their work show that they are very fair. they look at arguments from both sides all the time and they analyze them very carefully and when they take a position they then say these are what the other peopl

chris christie, i want to start with you. you just heard what senator collins said.o important. she said she could not support anyone who wanted to overturn roe v. wade. >> well listen, i think that everyone is going to have their own view on this and i don't think you're going to have anybody who's going to be that outright about giving their opinion on that case or any other case. so senator collins is going to have to do what every other senator is going to have to do which is look back at the person's record as a judge on the bench for any kind of long period of time, look at their record and writings and everything else and try to figure out what they think might happen. i think in the end what the president is most likely to do is to pick someone who he believes takes the right type of judicial approach but has a judicial temperament that's going to be very difficult to attack. >> it doesn't seem there's any indication that he's going to choose someone who's more moderate like justice kennedy. >> i don't think so. by the way, i kind of ugh about this a little b

chris, thank you so much. i'll see you tomorrow. great job. >>> let's bring in now cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins, chief correspondent of yahoo news, and the inside story of putin's war on america and the adviser to donald trump. john dean, i'm so glad you're here because you've gone through this before. a snippet of the tape. >> i've spoken to alan wieselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding -- yes. and it's all the stuff. because you never know where that company, you never know where he's going to be -- >> you never know if he'll get hit by a truck. >> correct. i'm all over that. i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing -- >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay -- >> pay with cash? >> no, no, no, no, no. >> check? >> so john, michael cohen had said at one point he wanted to be the john dean of the story. what's your reaction to this tape tonight? >> well, it's interesting, i'm somebody who has listened to an awful lot of tapes back in the nixon era and more recently thousands of them for nixon's conversations, every conversation he did on watergate. the only way you can really hear a t

collins. >> roe v. wade is extremely important to me, and i want a nominee who is in agreement of established law. >> reporter: chris pollone, nbc. >>> our crews saw hundreds of illegal explosions last night, and these light displays are in pittsburgh. contra costa county has many illegal fireworks. >> i think they do get the message, but they disregard the law. >> reporter: as we said, this san issue everywhere. in the next hour, bob redell is live in the south bay with what the authorities are dealing with, and how they are going to deal with this issue overnight. >>> and now, back to developments in thailand as the crews are continuing to work to rescue 12 trapped boys and the soccer coach that. team is in a flooded cave. now, the big threat now is monsoonal rain expected to hit by the end of the week. k a kari put together this map to show us how much rain is in the area. that threatt is forcing the rescuers to come up with a different plan that is faster there, and doing drills and preparing for what to do when the boys get out, but as for how the boys will get out, the officials say they are getting crash cour

but already republican senator susan collins of maine and dictating that has a problem with roe v. wade. chrisebut for the president to sort of hedged his bets, get democrats on board. it won't be easy, will it? you make no comment not going to be easy. there are two camps kind of pushing back and forth at once as they got to get this done right now if you want to change and make it more conservative. others say we should wait until after the election because the republican party may invigorate their base, which is a risky move. murkowski and collins have made it clear with her upon the care about and now probably what the supreme court to one of the highest values they hold as abortion and protecting planned parenthood a half a billion dollars abortion industry. if they are not going to vote for the supreme court justices had roe v. wade should be stricken from the books. neil: did they vote for neil gorsuch? >> that was before they thought there was any risk. now people are more afraid. also, i'm wondering if we will see that level of cooperation again. a couple democrats came over and voted

you saw it in the invitations, chris, from the white house that went out to those four red state democrats. they all declined to go. so did moderate republican susan collins of maine. and the minute this person's announced tonight you'll see the judicial crisis network and other conservative groups put millions of dollars on the airwaves to try to pressure these red state democrats running in states won by trump to back the nominee. >> michael, this is a political test, and i'm going to say at the end of the show, i can say it right now, i think it's going to be brutal for people like those senators i just mentioned. trump is connivingly brilliant at this. he says are you going to vote the way you people at home would vote on the nomination or your party's going to vote? he's going noild them, force them to choose between their party and their state. >> they've already made their choice. they're going to vote the way the people at home want them to vote. >> then this nomination's dead -- i mean it's in for sure. >> it's for sure. whether it's one of the two gentlemen you showed at the beginning of the program or even someone else we've not talked about on

chris coons from delaware. senate democrats up for reelection this year. joe donnelly of indiana. claire mccaskill is also a key vote and is up for reelection in missouri. we heard from senator suzanne collinsf maine who said she will not book for a candidate that will reverse roe v. wade. senator john mccain has not been in washington since before christmas. he continues to battle cancer. he is in arizona. whether he is able to vote remains a question. i want to follow-up on an earlier caller about ivy league. business insider had a piece a week ago, the president was down to five candidates. we now know he is down to four and potentially too. the president, according to business insider, said he wants somebody who is extraordinarily well-qualified with sterling credentials on their resume. some say that trump has sought to pick someone with a law degree from ivy league schools like harvard or yale. the advisor telling the washington post, president trump what the candidate to have an impressive portfolio of academic writing. the adviser acknowledged that trump has no desire to read the candidate's writing, only to know that it exists. a follow-up to the earlier caller about ivy league sch